The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, took place in 2025 in the Global South, specifically in Belém (Pará), Brazil. Among its key themes was the discussion on climate action financing. Beyond the negotiations between countries and debates around traditional mechanisms, COP30 sought to unlock resources from diverse sources to accelerate efforts to confront the climate change, especially through the lens of Global South countries.
In dialogue with this agenda, The Global South House presented a climate and nature financing architecture from and for the Global South, demonstrating that local mechanisms exist to ensure resources reach movements, communities, and people in these territories.
To broaden reach and impact, The Global South House reinforced the message that it is essential for more resources to be directed toward strengthening the financing ecosystem of and for the South, involving a diversity of actors in collaborative arrangements that accelerate systemic transformation in favor of socio-environmental justice.
The launch of The Global South House during COP30 was strategic because it marked the first time the UN Climate Conference was held in the Amazon territory. After three consecutive editions with reduced civil society engagement, COP30 was committed to being a more democratic and open space for activists and organizations to push for more ambitious climate action.
In this context, the Brazilian presidency proposed that COP30 be conducted as a Global Mutirão — a call for cooperation among peoples, sectors, and territories to transform commitments into effective action. The idea of the mutirão comes from the collective knowledge of Indigenous, Quilombola, and peripheral communities. An ancestral word originating from the Tupi-Guarani motirõ, mutirão represents community action for the common good.
The Global South House responded to this call, joining the global mutirão for climate and socio-environmental justice. It mobilized experiences, resources, and knowledge from the South, for the South, and for the world. A philanthropy mutirão that affirmed the plurality of possible paths and proposed, from the territories, new ways of financing life and the solutions that already existed, resisted, and flourished.
The Global South House occupied a space located in the heart of Belém, in front of the Praça da República, inside the iconic Edifício Manoel Pinto da Silva. The venue was situated about nine kilometers from the official COP30 venue.
Inaugurated in the 1950s, the Edifício Manoel Pinto da Silva was, for many years, the tallest building in the entire Amazon, marking the beginning of the city’s verticalization. An icon of modernist architecture in the region, the building remains emblematic in Belém’s urban landscape. The Global South House occupied the first floor, at CANTO Coworking — a space that preserves original elements from that era, such as the Raio-que-o-parta mosaic panels, a symbol of popular Amazonian modernism.
With a view of historic landmarks such as the Theatro da Paz and the Cinema Olympia, and located along the route of the Círio de Nazaré — one of the largest religious manifestations in the world — The Global South House pulsed in an area rich in culture, memory, and popular mobilization.
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